Sjogren's syndrome

Sjogren syndrome can be classified as "dryness arthralgia" in the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dryness is an important pathogenic factor, and the dry symptoms such as dry mouth and dry eyes are consistent with the pathogenic characteristics of dryness. Dryness invades the human body, easily damages body fluids, and leads to deficiency of yin fluid in the body. In sicca syndrome, dry evil lingering, so that mouth, eyes and other official orifices lost in moisture, dry discomfort. This dry evil not only from the outside, but also may be due to internal yin deficiency and endogenous. Arthralgia syndrome is mainly caused by obstruction of qi and blood. In patients with Sjogren's syndrome, it may be due to dryness for a long time, affecting the circulation of qi and blood, or mixed with other pathogenic factors, resulting in symptoms of obstruction of joints, such as pain, adverse movement, etc. According to the performance of dryness and arthralgia, it can be distinguished whether dryness is excessive or yin deficiency is dominant, or mixed with other pathological factors. Therefore, the treatment methods of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and removing dryness, activating blood circulation and dredging collaterals, etc. are applied, and appropriate traditional Chinese medicines are selected for conditioning to improve the symptoms of patients and improve the quality of life.